EduCon 2026Bridging History and STEM Towards A Sustainable Future
This workshop will focus on 3 things: 1. Why it's important to study PAST examples of sustainable living and technology/innovations so that students can see that we don't need wait for something new and shiny to save us from climate disaster. 2. Use indigenous examples of sustainable STEM practices so that we can empower hidden histories and also so that students can more readily see that they and their ancestors have already been deeply involved in STEM practices, even if they don't identify with STEM related occupations. 3. Work cross-curricularly between STEM and history teachers to foster a wraparound approach to climate education. The workshop will go like this: A brief presentation setting up the central theses. Two concrete examples of everyday sustainable STEM practices of civilizations found in world history. Cross-curricular team-up time to brainstorm an example and a cross-curricular lesson that educators can take with them and use in their classrooms.
Conversational Practice
Participants will have time firstly to brainstorm their own examples, but more importantly later to work with other educators across curriculum silos in order to create a lesson that they can turn around and use in their classrooms. I will be there to help brainstorm and plan as a resource, and I will be uplifting and highlighting their work to the whole group as they plan.
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